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The study, issued by the Colorado Nonprofit Association, found that the state's nonprofit employment grew by 39 percent, adding more than 34,600 jobs, between 1995 and 2005. The 123,000 full-time employees represent 5.6 percent of the state's workforce."

Thursday, January 31, 2008

onPhilanthropy: Articles: Protecting Your Organization's Good Name: "Most board members and executives would agree that a non-profit's most important asset is its good name. Without that, an organization can lose its funding, donors, clients, employees, and board members. In fact, loss of reputation may result in the very destruction of the not-for-profit organization itself."

onPhilanthropy: Articles: Protecting Your Organization's Good Name: "Most board members and executives would agree that a non-profit's most important asset is its good name. Without that, an organization can lose its funding, donors, clients, employees, and board members. In fact, loss of reputation may result in the very destruction of the not-for-profit organization itself."

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Acronym: Have a Heart: Wear Red This Friday!: "s if Fridays aren’t great enough, this Friday has the extra good element of being the American Heart Association’s popular National Wear Red Day. We’re talking red dresses, blouses, pins, lipstick, handbags, ties, socks, whatever. Thousands of organizations, cities and individuals nationwide are signing up to wear red and/or give $5 (with organizations often matching employee donations) to help raise awareness and boost prevention of the number-one killer of women: heart disease."

Rob Walker - Consumed - Marketing and Advertising - New York Times: "Has a charity ever announced that it had enough money? Would-be lenders were dumbstruck, says Kiva’s public-relations director, Fiona Ramsey: “They’re stunned for a second — ‘Here I am, I have money, I want to help someone, and you’re telling me that I can’t?’ ” The note encouraged the visitor to check back soon, as a new batch of loan-seeking entrepreneurs will often appear mere minutes later. But still, Kiva is a philanthropic organization facing an extremely unusual challenge: maintaining adequate supply (people who need help) to meet demand (people who want to give it). “We don’t want people coming to the Web site who want to make a loan and there’s no one to loan to,” Ramsey says."

DES MOINES, Iowa—January 25, 2008—The Nature Conservancy announced that they have raised more than $18.1 million dollars for conservation in the Saving the Last Great Places in Iowa-The Campaign for Conservation publically launched in June 2006. This exceeded the original goal of $9.5 million."

A funding effort of such magnitude, bolstered by enormous gifts of $42 million by Margo and Bill Winspear and $20 million from four members of the Wyly family, is helping raise Dallas' stature as one of the country's premier performing arts venues."

Palo Alto Daily News: "A survey of 100 Silicon Valley firms finds that nearly two-thirds of companies encourage employees to volunteer, 72 percent give locally and that health and human services and education are the most popular areas for gifts.

Corporate Philanthropy in Silicon Valley, a study released by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a Mountain-View based philanthropic institution, shows that while some companies give upwards of $200 million, others donate very small amounts or nothing, makng the median t$80,000. The study includes private, public and family-owned firms - with public companies giving the most."

Last year Harvard Law School brought in $48m (£24.6m), while New York University School of Law raised about $42m (£21.5m) and Columbia Law School raked in almost $24m (£12.3m) – excluding further cash promised by alums and businesses amounting to millions more."

(Jan. 28, 2008) A new study examines the extraordinary growth in the Japanese charitable sector, what fundraising methods are most popular in Japan, differing views on giving and how North American fundraisers can approach Japanese donors."